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MAGHINE FOR WINDING PAPER AND OTHER FABRICS.

No. 363,024; Patented May 17, 1887.

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MACHINE FOR WINDING PAPER AND OTHER FABRICS.

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JOHN \VALDRON, OF NEYV BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR WINDING PAPER AND OTHER FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,024, dated May 1'7,1337- Application filed November 10, 1886. Serial No. filth 154.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN \VALDRON, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Brunswick, in the State of New Jersey, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Machines for \Vinding Paper and OtherFabrics, of which the following is a spccifica tion.

This invention relates to machines for winding into rolls or reels,paper, cloth, textile or other fabric or material, and it is animprovement upon a certain machine for winding paper invented by me, andpatented to me in and by United States Letters Patent No. 352,722, datedNov. 16, 1885.

The machine upon which my present devices are improvements is one of aclass the object of which is the automatic reeling or winding of fabricsinto compact, smooth, and even rolls, which are free from folds orwrinkles.

Prior to the invention of the machine for which patent has, as stated,been obtained by me, smooth winding has been obtained by mounting thewinding roll upon which the fabric is wound in a frame to which anoscillatory motion has been given in order to alternately lift and lowerthe ends ofsaid winding roll or impart to it a wabbling motion upon thedriving roll upon which it rests and by which it is driven, all as fullyset forth in United States Letters Patent No. 335,870, granted February9, 1886, to Heinrich \Virr terwerber. Such machines as that ofXVinterwerber, and also that for which I have made application forpatent, obviate the difficulty which in the operation of windingmaterial, such as paper, has heretofore been experienced in keeping thematerial smooth and true as it is wound, and in preventing the formationof wrinkles, folds, and other irregularities, which affect the marketvalue of the finished and wound product, and in many instances,especiallyin those of decorated wall papers, tend to destroy the fabricitself, because, in the case of grounded or coated papers, in which thecolor or paint is applied to only one side but is apt to leak aroundbeneath the edges, the paint or color beneath the edges thickens thepaper at its edges and consequently makes the roll of paper thicker orof greater bulk at its edges than atits central and other portions,

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with the result that the central portions have, as stated, becomewrinkled, creased, folded, and indented, while the edges under thetension have in many instances burst.

My present improvements relate especially to devices for putting thepaper or other fabric to be wound under, and retaining it at,predetermined tension, the tension being applied in advance of thepassage of the material to the Winding roll.

A machine embodying my improvements is represented in the accompanyingdrawings and described in this specification, the particular subjectmatter claimed as novel being hereinafter definitely specified.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a machineembodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of said machine;Fi 3 is a fragmentary front elevational detail of one of the guidewaysfor one of the carrying arms of the winding roll; Fig. 4 a fragmentaryperspective detail of the adjustable tension rolls,with the constructionand application of which my present im provements are concerned, andFig. 5 a view in perspective of a modified form of a driving rolladapted to be employed in the machine to which my present improvementsare applied.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

In order to a more thorough comprehension of my present improvements itis essential to explain the machine which forms the subject matter of mypatent above referred to, and to which machine my improvements arepreferably applied, although the improvemcnts, as such, are applicableto other forms of machine.

In the drawings*A, A, are the side frames of the machine, which areconveniently mounted upon a bed plate A which, if desired, are tiedtogether by suitable tie bars, and which together with the bed plateconstitute the framework of the machine. The fabric B assumed to be wallpapcr-is led into the machine preferably over fixed streteheabars ahoused in a supplemental frame work a surmounted upon the side framcs,and is conducted around against a fixed tension roll, which I term theupper tension-roll O, of any preferred character, housed in the boxings0 applied to the side frames, then around ings d in the frame work, andfrom the guide roll the paper is led over the driving roll F, housed, inparallelism with the guideroll, in boxingsf and attached to the windingroll E, the gudgeons e of which are entered in adjustable bearings erespectively mounted upon two carrying arms G, independently pivoted attheir inner ends, at g, to the frame work, travelling in ways 9supported from the frame, and at their outer ends provided with counterweights H, conveniently applied in any desired series upon weighthangers g pivotallyconnected with said carrying arms.

One of the gudgeons of the driving roll is prolonged beyond its boxingand provided with driving pulleys P, or equivalent devices, throughwhich rotation is imparted to said driving roll.

The frame work as an entirety, its stretcher bars, guide roll, andwinding roll proper, that is apart from its mounting, are all of ageneral character common in these machines.

The driving roll F is of a special construc tion and its application inthe machine in combination with the winding roll and other rollsconstitutes the invention for which I have received a patent as stated.This driving roll F is, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, pro vided with aseries of alternately disposed vanishing grooves f, being taperinggutters, notches, corrugations, indentations, or channels, formedlongitudinally upon the surface of the roll, in alternated or staggereddisposition, and which have their greatest depth upon the edge of theroll and taper or gradually lessen to a point near or beyond the center,where they Vanish. Their office is, in the rotation of the driving-roll,to present such inclined surfaces as to occasion a tilting, rocking, .orrise and fall of the alternate ends, or wabbling, so to speak, of thewinding roll E and its wound fabric B, upon the surface of the drivingroll. Instead of employing grooves or gutters, the same result can beobtained by providing tapering ridges, f, Fig. 5, upon the surface ofthe roll.

beyond said side frames provided with spur wheels Q, fixed on them.

R is an adjustable shaft horizontally disposed in parallelism and in thesame horizontal plane with the yoke shafts. It is supportedin boxings rapplied to the side frames, and passes completely across the machinefrom side frame to side frame. Its extremities which project beyond saidframes are provided with fixed pinions S which mesh with the spur wheelsQ. One extremity of this shaft is projected beyond the pinion to carry afixed ratchet wheel T provided with a handle it, the teeth of whichwheel are in engagement with the gravity or other pawl U pivoted to oneof the side frames ofthe machine.

The pivoted yokes which carry the adj ustable tension-rolls, beingparallel, move in unison upon their shafts upon rotation being impartedto the spur wheels which said shafts carry. This rotation is imparted tosaid spur wheels through the pinions upon the adjusting shaft, by therotation of said shaft as oocasioned by the movement of thehandle-provided ratchet wheel, so that any preferred adj ustment of theyokes and their tension rolls y can be readily secured,-retention of theyokes and rolls in their adjusted position being effected by the actionof the pawl in looking the ratchet wheeliupon the adjusting shaft.

In the drawings the adjusting rolls are represented in full lines in agiven adjusted position. In Fig. 1, however, a different adjustment isrepresented in dotted lines. The adjustment of the yokes and rolls canof course be effected by applying but one spur wheel. I prefer, however,to employ two such wheels in order to equally distribute the power uponboth yokes.

It would of course be possible to apply the handle directly to asingleapplied spur wheel and employa pawl operating in conjunction with suchwheel, which would then become a of the spur wheels and pinions may, ofcourse,

be varied to enable me to more or less rapidly adjust the tension rolls.

Such being a description of my improve ments their operation, as well asthat of the machine to which they are shown applied, will besufficiently understood. Suffice it to repeat that the paper or otherfabric to be wound, having been introduced through all of the tensionrolls and carried over the guide roll to the winding roll, is, afterbeing put under the desired tension by the adjustment of the adjustabletension rolls, smoothly and evenly wound upon the winding roll, thevanishing grooves serving to impart to said winding roll an oscillatorymovement, which the independently acting carrying arms permit, and whichimparts to the wound fabric a smoothness otherwise difficult to obtain.The joggling motion has also the tendency to throw the edges of thefabric a little out of line, and

thereby prevent the thickening of the wound roll at its ends to anextent greater than its thickness at the middle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The combination of a driving roll provided with vanishing grooves, awinding roll, upon which fabric is wound, surmounted upon said drivingroll and adapted to be rotated by it, means for rotating said drivingroll, adj ustable tension rolls for regulating the tension of the fabricupon the winding roll, and means for adjusting the adjustable tensionrolls, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of a driving roll provided with vanishing grooves, awinding roll, upon which the fabric is wound, surmounted upon saiddriving roll and adapted to be rotated by it, means for rotating saiddriving roll, fixed tension rolls, adjustable tension rolls forregulating the tension of the fabric upon the winding roll, and meansfor adjusting the adjustable tension rolls, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, in a paper winding machine, of a driving roll havingvanishing grooves, a winding roll upon which material is wound and whichis supported upon and rotated by said driving roll, independently movingbearings for said winding roll, adjustable tension rolls for regulatingthe tension of the fabric upon the winding roll, and means for adjustingthe adj ustable tension rolls, substantially as set forth.

4. In a paper winding machine, the combination of the driving rollprovided with vanishing grooves, awinding roll, upon which the fabric iswound, surmounted upon and driven by said driving roll, boXings for saidwinding roll, carrying arms upon which said boxings are mounted,adjustable tension rolls for regulating the tension of the fabric uponthe wind ing roll, and means for adjusting the adjustable tension rolls,substantially as set forth.

5. In a paper winding machine, the combination of the driving rollprovided with vanishing grooves, a winding roll, upon which the fabricis wound, surmounted upon and driven by said driving roll, boXings forsaid winding roll, carrying arms upon which said boxings are mounted,fixed tension regulating rolls, adjustable tension rolls for regulatingthe tension of the fabric upon the winding rolls, and means foradjusting the adjustable tension rolls, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this Fourth day ofNovember A. 1)., 1886 JNO VVALDRON

